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Anura Kumara Dissanayake wins 2024 Sri Lanka Presidential Election
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
Anura Kumara Dissanayaka, the 55-year-old leader of the leftist Janatha Vimukthi Peremuna party, has been declared the winner of the election, according to the Election Commission of Sri Lanka.
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Sri Lanka polls: Anura Kumara Dissanayake leads in first round of counting
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
After Elections Commission Chairman RLAM Ratnayake announced a second preference count for Sri Lankan presidential elections, National People's Power (NPP) candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake, topped the first round of counting with 5,634,915 votes (42.31 per cent), according to a report by t
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"Way beyond November," says President Biden when questioned on Quad surviv
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
US President Joe Biden on Saturday (local time) gestured towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi when asked about whether the Quad will survive beyond the US elections in November.
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Wickremesinghe and Rajapaksa cast votes in crucial Sri Lankan election
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
President Ranil Wickremesinghe and presidential candidate Namal Rajapaksa participated in the 2024 Sri Lankan presidential election today, urging citizens to make their voices heard. This election is pivotal as the nation recovers from the 2022 economic crisis. A total of 38 candidates are v
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"Every vote matters for Sri Lanka's future": Presidential candidate Namal
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
Namal Rajapaksa, the presidential candidate and son of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, cast his vote in the 2024 Sri Lankan presidential election. He also encouraged citizens to do the same, emphasising that every single vote counts for the future of Sri Lanka.
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Economy on centre stage, as Sri Lanka set to vote today in first polls sin
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
The crisis, which led to widespread food and fuel shortages, prompted Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country in 2022. The economic policy of Rajapaksa, followed by the onset of the Covid pandemic, is believed to have led to the worst economic crisis in the island nat
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Sri Lanka to hold Presidential election on Saturday
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
Sri Lankans head to the polls this Saturday to choose the country's 10th president, marking the nation's first presidential election since the devastating economic crisis of 2022
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Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden to be sentenced on December 4
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
A US federal judge agreed to a request by Hunter's attorney to push back the date of the junior Biden's first criminal sentencing, slated on November 13 by three weeks, after the Presidential elections
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Pope Francis slams Donald Trump, Kamala Harris; terms US elections choice
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
Pope Francis has labelled the upcoming US presidential election as a choice between the "lesser of two evils," criticizing both Donald Trump's immigration stance and Kamala Harris' support for abortion rights. Speaking from his plane, he urged voters to carefully consider their choices. F
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Sunita Williams terms space her "happy place"; NASA astronauts eager to vo
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
Both the astronauts will remain on the international space station as part of the Expedition 71/72 crew and return home in February 2025 aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft with two other crew members on NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 mission.
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Taylor Swift endorses Kamala Harris after Trump debate
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
After watching the first debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, singer Taylor Swift came out in support of Harris saying "I will be casting my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the 2024 Presidential Election."
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Harris says Trump will sign national abortion ban if he gets re-elected; "
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
She said Trump's policies on abortion have no except for rape or incest and termed it "immoral."
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